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Regarding the Baptist convention's decision to recommend to their people that "the Roman Catholic Church is both a religion and an ambitious political system aspiring to be a state...
...ridiculous to hold that if a Roman Catholic is elected President, the Catholic Church will aspire [to rule the U.S.] under the Pope. Does the Pope run the state of California? Does he run the city of New York? Of course not. Neither could he nor would he try to run the national Government if a Catholic were President...
...strongest Roman Catholic presidential hopeful since Alfred E. Smith, Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy well knew that the issue of religion might hurt him in 1960 as it hurt "the Happy Warrior" in 1928. Consequently, out of a shrewd sense of political necessity, Candidate Kennedy provoked discussion of his Catholicism months ago, got accustomed to facing blunt questions with plain answers, and managed to run his fleet-footed political race with remarkably little religious heckling. But last week Kennedy found himself caught in a Catholic-Protestant clerical crossfire on the incendiary issue of birth control. And before the week...
...which has been rejected by most other Christian groups." The Catholic bishops' position, said Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike of San Francisco, would "condemn rapidly increasing millions of people in less fortunate parts of the world to starvation, bondage, misery and despair." Bishop Pike, himself a convert from Roman Catholicism, demanded to know if the Catholic bishops' policy "is binding on Roman Catholic candidates for public office...
With that blunt inquiry, Bishop Pike inevitably dropped the problem at the doorstep of the nation's best-known Roman Catholic office seeker-Jack Kennedy. Dodging a personal opinion of the bishops' policy ("That's my business"), Kennedy burned at being put on the spot. Bishop Pike's question, said Kennedy, "should be directed to all public candidates and to all public men. Do they call up other candidates when the bishops of their faith make some kind of statement? I don't want to be called up every time the bishops and priests make...